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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

"The math on build vs buy has changed!" Definitely in some fashion yes, but the problem wasn't just the building - it was maintaining what you built. Everything has a tax, and I'd rather not tax my engineers with things that aren't meaningful for our business or our developer experience.

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

an observation from obscure twitter account "thebes"

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Looking at complex code you spent weeks working on over a year ago and trying to remember where you left off

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a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay

ALT: a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I think the hardest part in really adopting this is designing with dynamic flow control in mind. The advice is correct, but I think many of us just haven't seen it done well enough to really get how to propagate it into our systems effectively.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 19/01/2026

It seems the crypto community has found a new way to extract money from people. They are creating tokens for popular open source projects and inviting maintainers to get in on the scheme. Here is the email I got earlier today.

Hey Kelsey,

I'm a big fan of your work, especially on kubernetes-the-hard-way.

I wanted to raise some funds for you through the use of a crypto coin using a platform called BagsApp (@BagsApp on X). We decided to base it off of NoCode as it is one of the funniest repositories we have seen in Github. The community really likes this combination of rewarding a strong builder and the funny aspect NOCODE brings.

BagsApp is becoming increasingly popular as a method of open source funding for talented developers such as yourself, with many success stories coming from developers who have taken advantage of this innovative platform.

BagsApp has documentation explaining the entire model, which you can read here: https://bags.fm/blueprint

Another developer Steve Yegge; creator of Gas Town has seen great success with this and has written a medium article which may also bring you more clarity. You can read that here: https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2011632032284369305?s=20

We have currently raised $3,000 and this is steadily increasing.

You can check the funds raised for you and claim here: https://bags.fm/79VXvEt7xSPhvQggeJ75UVqD41yXJwBS44zrstreBAGS

I understand this may come across as shady so, if you have any more questions I am more than happy to hop on a call with you and explain where this all comes from.

Thanks!

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I think I just made a really cool chart but I don't wanna be that guy posting in work slack about my cool chart at 8:30 am in my first month on Xmas morning. That's kind of a year 2 move imo.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Jerome Powell just straight up said the U.S. government is publishing fake jobs numbers. Things will really go off the rails when Trump replaces him next year.

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Here's to something new

An old fashioned that's way too sweet, and I wish were a boulevardier

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Stories leaking about how unqualified people in the Trump admin think Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth are seem silly in context. This is exactly what you get putting podcasters and Fox News hosts in serious life or death situations

nypost.com

Damning report labels FBI ‘rudderless ship’ under Kash Patel — with him and Dan Bongino more concerned with building ‘personal résumés’

FBI Director Kash Patel is facing withering criticism days after the White House denied media reports that the president is about to fire him.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID. I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail

cnbc.com

DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter

U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/11/2025

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

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CUE @cuelang.org · 07/11/2025

🚀 Missed our launch event with @kelseyhightower.com? No worries, the recording is now live: youtu.be/LleBb8LtQ8M Curious how the Configuration Control Plane fits into your setup? Book one our limited office hours: cal.com/team/cue/con...

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CUE Labs Launch Event with Kelsey Hightower: Explore Our Configuration Control Plane

YouTube video by cuelang

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/11/2025

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

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CUE @cuelang.org · 03/11/2025

Final call! 📣 Join us with @kelseyhightower.com tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov 4, at 17:00 UTC to explore the future of configuration with our Configuration Control Plane, and turn configuration from a source of risk into a source of reliability! Register here: luma.com/ysloofz3

luma.com

CUE Labs launch event with Kelsey Hightower · Zoom · Luma

Configuration chaos is a multi-billion-dollar blind spot. But imagine a world where configuration isn't a source of fear, but a source of reliability. A world…

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 03/11/2025

I've asked the team behind Cue to come prepared to discuss the limits of configuration management when dealing with different configuration systems, for example, using Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions to manage a single project, something that occurs more often than you would think.

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”

chicago.suntimes.com

ICE agents point gun at state Rep. Hoan Huynh in Albany Park

Hoan Huynh was alerting the community on the Northwest Side to the presence of federal agents when they blocked his vehicle on a residential street and an agent pointed a gun at him and others in the ...

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Nothing feels worse than a botched handshake.

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Corporate training videos be like: "Ugh, guys, remember when I did some insider trading? Well it turns out that's a crime!! *Sigh* now I might have to go to prison and I'm gonna miss my besties wedding that weekend! This really wasn't worth it, guys ://///"

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

More free ideas for @googlesheets.bsky.social: Split pane sheets where I can have two tabs open at once in the same sheet. Yes, I can have multiple browsers open. No, that isn't what I want. I want split pane tabs.

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

wired.com

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic. "Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

If I don't reply to your unsolicited emails to buy your product, why do you think calling me on the phone is the move?

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 07/10/2025

"It's the weirdest job market in my 15 years in tech" -- from a Big Tech recruiter. But why is the job market so weird? Talking to 30+ hiring managers and recruiters, it doesn't seem like AI. It seems more like.. interest rates. My longer analysis: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-t...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/10/2025

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Susan Potter @susanpotter.net · 03/10/2025

DHH is what techno-fascism looks like in the little leagues: A now-wealthy immigrant whose life's story embodies the promise of open societies now writes as though openness is cultural suicide. Same for Musk & Thiel. An open and accepting society made them who they are. They'd be nothing otherwise.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 03/10/2025

NEW: A prolific English-speaking hacking and extortion group has published a data leak site claiming the theft of 1 billion records from companies who store their customer data in Salesforce databases. The hackers claim to have stolen data Qantas, Stellantis, FedEx, Hulu, and others.

techcrunch.com

Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases | TechCrunch

The hacking group claims to have stolen about a billion records from companies, including FedEx, Qantas, and TransUnion, who store their customer and company data in Salesforce.

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Remember "mashups"? We were all so hopeful then.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Journalism and teaching are some of the most valuable yet thankless jobs in our society. I want to thank everyone who wakes up in the morning excited to teach others or inform their fellow humans for terrible pay.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A new sign of how much America has declined as a destination for international talent. China has announced a new visa to attract foreign workers and Chinese students are freaking out over increased competition for jobs. This story would have sounded like an AI hallucinations a year ago.

cnbc.com

CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: China's K-visa plans spark worries of a talent flood

Despite signaling a greater openness to global talent, the policy does not represent a sweeping liberalization of China's immigration stance.

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

When will Cater2Me finally get with the times and offer an mcp server?!?!?!?! I'm sitting here clicking through an app like an idiot! Why can't I yell my lunch order into my phone?!?????!!

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Why are so many dogs named Whiskey, what's going on there?

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

One thing I did not anticipate as an outcome of getting older was the complete 180 I did on carrots. They went from boring to delicious in a way I cannot explain. Got some raw carrots with a little hummus dip? I'm all over it now.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market.

Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers.

How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.

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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 24/09/2025

If these facts are accurate, in my layperson's opinion, I believe Ruby Central has violated their obligations as a 501c3 charity. It appears they are acting in the interest of a significant donor and not towards a charitable purpose. joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-t...

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Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover

Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The Secret Service isn't claiming it foiled any plot targeting the UN General Assembly. Just that a big collection of SIMs (probably used for fraud) could have *potentially* disrupted NYC cell service. The SIMs were in a *35 MILE* radius of the UN. These headlines are all pretty egregiously wrong:

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Quadrant has been pay2play slop for years. I remember a company all hands where in the same presentation, we didn't place in one square (explanation: we all know it's pay2play), and placed well in another (explanation: we're truly leading xyz in the space). All within a 15 minute window of time.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 23/09/2025

A *lot* about this story doesn't make sense, but not least, how do the authorities know (or think they know) that they have all of the malicious cell sites in question?

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath. Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it. It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

hbr.org

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

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Stabby @stabby.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Reminds me of the time I had to schedule an internal tech talk and wanted to be inclusive of our folks in London, so I asked that team how they colloquially describe their own time zone in natural language (ex: eastern time). 87 replies and no common consensus emerged.

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Ky @ky.fyi · 21/09/2025

half of tech is people mindlessly going "ooh shiny object" at tech stacks and visual design without stopping to ask what actual problem is being solved (or created)

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 20/09/2025

Here's one such account that urges everyone to ignore the Presidential Order in lieu of these details on social media So, what should one trust? A signed presidential order, or a social media post like this? What chaotic regulation and comms x.com/RapidRespons...

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 20/09/2025

What a hot mess. Official US social media accounts are now contradicting the published predidential order, saying it doesn't apply to existing H1B holders (the execive order says it does) and existing H1Bs would no be turned back on the border (the order says they would)

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Lemme be absolutely clear *every* H-1B visa employee at my (large cap) US firm was summoned back to the office from wherever they were in the world today for this crap. For some, it was utter panic. Appalling.

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